Indian Journal of ENT & Head–Neck Surgery · Perspective OPEN ACCESS ENT HEALTHCARE POLICY · INDIA The Silent Crisis: Closing India’s ENT Healthcare Gap Forty-three million Indians live with disabling hearing loss. Millions more bear the burden of chronic sinusitis, laryngeal disease, and head-and-neck malignancy — often in silence, often too late. A practising ENT surgeon examines the structural gaps, and argues for a framework that can actually close them. Dr. Sanjeev Mohanty | MS (ENT) · Senior Consultant, Head & Neck Surgery · Chennai April 2026 There is a particular kind of silence that follows a diagnosis delivered too late. I have sat across from patients — farmers from rural Tamil Nadu, factory workers from industrial Odisha, schoolchildren from the outskirts of cities with gleaming new hospitals — and delivered the news that what could have been ...
With more than 25 years of rich clinical experience in the field of EAR, NOSE, THROAT, HEAD & NECK ailments, it is supplemented by robust academic credentials too.